TESTING A RECRUITMENT STRATEGY FOR A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF OLDER LGBT ADULTS
Phil Schumm, Colm O’Muircheartaigh · 2024
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Phil Schumm and Colm O’Muircheartaigh test how to recruit older LGBT adults into a national health study, in a 2024 feasibility report. A fair, random sample of this group is hard to build, since no list of them exists. Their SAMLAP study aimed to prove that a probability sample could still be drawn, as the base for a long study of health and aging.
The team mailed 70,000 sampled addresses with a push to answer online, seeking household members aged 40 and over who identify as LGBT. About 300 identified people then got in-person follow-up. Built-in experiments varied incentive size and timing, a paper form in the first mailing, and a last-ditch courier contact. The results show what it costs to recruit a hidden population honestly.
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| CREATOR | Phil Schumm, Colm O’Muircheartaigh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |